Williamstown, Mass.: The Clark Art Institute - Feb 21, 2025

Friday, Feb 21, 2025 - I have been working on my database of Winslow Homer paintings (using the book "Weatherbeaten: Winslow Homer and Maine" - an exhibition hosted at The Portland Museum of Art in 2012). i have been at The Clark 3 times before: 2015, 2018 and 2021 (all with my old iPhone/camera). On Thursday morning, Feb 20 I hit The Clark's website and saw that 10 paintings I had taken "old" pictures of were ALL ON DISPLAY (plus a portrait I had never seen)! I told Wendy that I would like to go out to The Clark sometime, and she said "Well, I'm free tomorrow." YAY! We hit The Road after breakfast, and were out there at 12:30, in time for lunch in their Cafe. The day had already started wonderfully with my walk on Singing Beach at 6:42

A pretty-straightforward drive:

Out at The Clark:

Their downstairs/cafe area is pretty cool:

After lunch it was time to "Hit The Art". "Comparison Photos (Old-then-New)" include:

Winslow Homer - "Eastern Point", 1900 oil. Old photo (top) was taken May 5, 2021:

Winslow Homer - "Summer Squall", 1904 oil. Old photo (top) was taken May 5, 2021:

Winslow Homer - "Farmyard Scene", 1872-74 oil. Old photo (top) was taken May 29, 2015:

Winslow Homer - "Two Guides", 1877 oil. Old photo (top) was taken May 29, 2015:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "View at Guernsey", 1883 oil. Old photo (top) was taken May 29, 2015:

Alexandre Calame - "The Mythen", c. 1861 oil. Old photo (top) was taken Jan 26, 2018:

Other beauties I saw:

John Singer Sargent - "Fumée d'ambre gris (Smoke of Ambergris)", 1880 oil:

Edgar Degas - "Dancers in the Classroom", c. 1880 oil:

Edgar Degas - "Before the Race", c. 1882 oil:

Claude Monet - "The Cliffs at Étretat", 1885 oil:

Pierre-Auguste Renoir - "Bay of Naples, Evening", 1881 oil:

and a perfect piece for a date - Auguste Rodin - "Eternal Spring", Modeled 1884, cast c. 1898-1918 bronze:

We left The Museum a little after 2 PM. I like the look of the whole 1.23-miles:

REALLY COOL Ice-by-the-side-of-the-road on Route 2 on the way home:

Dinner at Five Guys on 114 on our way home. I wonder if I'll stop by St. Anthony, ID on my trip west this year?

[next stop: The Museum of Modern Art in New York City]

Thank You God for this wonderful art/adventure/date-with-my-wife day!

Music today:

At 3 separate times, Wendy read me a chapter or 2 from a nice book: "Love Does" by Bob Goff (2012):

various - Saturday Night Fever, 1977 double-album, last heard 5/12/2022 - GREAT disco/soundtrack album:

Jackson Browne - Saturate Before Using, 1972 debut album, last heard 9/05/2024 - I like this one a lot:

various - Saturday Night Live: 25 Years, Vol. 1, 2006 compilation album, last heard 10/05/2020 - great collection (Paul Simon, Sting, Counting Crows, Annie Lenox, Grateful Dead, ...):

Counting Crows - Saturday Nights & Sunday Mornings, 2008 album, last heard 9/13/2021. As I wrote then: not a very good album, except "Washington Square", WHICH I LOVE!!:

Bruce Hornsby & The Range - Scenes From The Southside, 1988 2nd album, last heard 3/03/2017 - wonderful album:

Neil Young - Silver & Gold, 2000 25th studio album, last heard 7/17/2024:

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